"Key to building positive future is maintaining balance of power": Mark Zuckerberg calls for responsible AI development

San Francisco (California) [US], September 16 (ANI): Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has waded into the debate set-off by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on slowing the pace of AI development down or risk losing control. In a post on X, Zuckerberg referenced a blog post written by himself last month and said that labs have a responsibility to train their models safely. 'Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned,' he wrote Zuckerberg said that trust and alignment are extremely important when it comes to the progress of AI models. 'There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind. - Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well,' he said. 'Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us,' he added The Meta boss's thought process aligns with Amodei and Microsoft CEO when it comes to the idea of engaging independent evaluators of the AI systems built by labs. 'I'm proud of the security foundations we've built. - Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators,' Zuckerberg wrote. Zuckerberg further backed the Tech bosses saying that the key was maintaining a right balance of power even as technology is used to serve people. 'Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do,' he said. Earlier in his blog, Zuckerberg expanded on superintelligence saying that its opportunities and challenges should be taken seriously. 'The defining questions of our age are who will have access to superintelligence and what will we direct it towards. Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone? We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety. All new technologies create opportunities and challenges. Superintelligence will be among the most important technologies in history, so its opportunities and challenges will likely be greater than any we've seen in our lifetimes. We should take this very seriously,' he wrote. The Meta boss however negated fears of any extinction level event and said that Meta was committed to build with principles of individual empowerment. 'It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom. I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future. The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic...It is increasingly important to have a clear philosophy and values for how superintelligence will benefit humanity. Meta is committed to building with the principles of individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as AI's purpose, and a balance of power favouring people as the foundation for addressing safety risks,' he wrote. The debate over slowing AI down is being described as an inflection point in the industry. What set-off as a question of principle first raised when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon made a public resignation claiming that building of 'superintelligent' systems possessed a genuine risk to humanity, is now a full-fledged debate on how the AI industry will evolve in the future. (ANI)